23-year study finds being raised in an intact two-parent family outweighs race in at least two areas

Statistics.  Most people don't understand 'em, meaning it's easy for propagandists to write articles lying  about what a given stat means.  Case in point is a "longitudinal study" of almost 9,000 U.S. "residents" born from 1980 to 1984.

Starting in 1997, federal workers began interviewing the group on a wide range of topics.  Participants were then re-interviewed once a year from 1997 to 2011, and biennially since then.

One of the things the study found was that black girls raised in an intact two-parent home--the dreaded "nuclear family"--had a far higher chance of graduating from college than white girls from one-parent families.

The study also found that black boys raised in an intact two-parent home were significantly less likely to be incarcerated than white boys raised by a single parent.

This conclusion didn't surprise conservatives, but liberals were incensed!  The results discredited one of their constant claims--and they weren't about to accept those disrespectful conclusions.  So they countered that two-parent verus single-parent households was NOT important, compared to...race.  Or income.  Or membership in a country club.  Or anything, to try to discredit the inconvenient stat.

It's vital to keep in mind that no one was claiming that a higher percentage of whites graduated from college, but rather that having two parents in the home had a larger effect than race.  Same for incarceration rates: white males raised by one parent were more likely to have been jailed than black males raised in a two-parent household.

Of course you may have trouble believing how violently liberal commenters reacted to the report.  You're a rational person, so you expect that when a government study covering 23 years reported these results, rational people would reconsider some of their shrieks.  But not liberals.

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Now OBVIOUSLY the findings noted don't claim that kids raised by a single can't do just as well as someone raised by a two-parent household.  It's just harder and more rare.

But hey, statistics are a sub-set of math, right?  And math is raaaacist!  Just ask any public-school teacher in Seattle.  They'll tell ya.  So statistics must be raaaacist too!  Which means they can be ignored, dismissed, like inflation, or two million illegal immigrants biden* and the Dems are allowing to stay in the U.S. this year.  Just meaningless numbers, citizen.

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